Black Mermaids, Feminism, Israel-Palestine - REAL TALKS!

The Israel-Palestine is uniquely different, since Israel has pretty much always felt it was their God-ordained destiny to take what they want, being they see themselves as the chosen people and all that (I read parts of the Old Testament not too long ago, and damn the Old-Testament-Jews and God were both unequivocal assholes!).

I'm not sure what "feminists" you are listening to, but you've described textbook extremists. Anyone saying any sex is superior, or you don't need the other is literally, by definition, not a feminist. (And more likely just a bot or troll amplifying anti-feminist theology, or people who have spent no time actually studying what actual feminist theory is about. (I used to be this, so I know all about it - I used to hate feminists and think of them all as man-haters who wanted superiority. Then I studied a ton of feminist theory, found I agreed with nearly 100% of it, and was on board.

The biggest problem with mainstream feminism, especially that which you see on social media, in the "news", press, etc., is not a search for superiority. For that, women would need to be at a place of meaningful equality, and they still aren't even there yet. No, for me, it's been a lack of room at the table for mens rights movements, and issues pertaining to non-extremist mens-rights-movements. There are tons of feminists who do support these causes as wells, and support legitimate sex equality (like abolishing "women and children first" during emergency situations, making women eligible for military conscription etc). But for the most part, the focus is in bringing the base status of women up, so there isn't room (some feel) for extra issues on the table. This lack of focus on overall gender equality as a whole was actually what made me stop identifying as a feminist in name, because the movement was a little bit more narrow-minded than my own personal outlook had grown to be. I'm still passionate about all issues of equality, and based on its textbook definition, am still a feminist, there's just far too much distance between where I feel people need to go and the scope of most larger bodies of feminist theory, ideology, and discourse. At least that I have found. I'm sure in the scholarly forum there's much better discourse going on, but I've been out of that circle for quite a while now

I agree greed is a small part of things like racism and whatever other ism people want to buy into. But I think it's a battle against human nature. We are social creatures. We have developed to where we are today by being parts of tribes and groups and social circles. And in every social tribe, you have a hierarchy. Historically, it was better for our survival if we were not the lowest person on the social totem pole, so we would find ways to establish ourselves as higher up in the hierarchy than others. I suppose from a survival sense, this would be so that at no point in time were we considered expendable to our tribe, since that would affect our ability to survive. But our civilizations and technologies have pushed us past that, but our brains have not caught up. We still look for these hierarchies and still feel the need to try to establish ourselves as better, smarter, or superior to others pretty much everywhere. Hence things like bullying at ridiculously young ages. Any form of mocking others, or ridicule. And the 'isms. If our race, sex, gender, class, religion, etc is better, we are "saver" from social ostracization, so we still cling to those archaic hierarchies. Clearly, for the betterment of us all, we need to drop that shit, and grow the fuck up sooner rather than later.





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